Drought Stokes Water Fights

Texas Asks Supreme Court to Force Neighbors to Slake Part of Its Growing Thirst

By

Miguel Bustillo

Jan. 16, 2013 7:21 p.m. ET

Water wars are heating up in Texas, where officials are suing New Mexico and Oklahoma over river water as the Lone Star State tries to quench the thirst of its booming population.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed this month to take up a dispute between Texas' Tarrant Regional Water District, an agency that supplies water to 1.7 million people in north Texas, and Oklahoma, over water that flows into the Red River. So far, lower courts...